Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Through the Looking Glass was published during the original Gilded Age, and we are currently living in another.

They have to at least have a plausible path to profitability. The serious investors have known for some time there isn’t one with AI. Just because the AI companies will never be profitable long term doesn’t mean there is no reason to invest in them short term. That’s what a speculative bubble is. Everyone believes the line will keep going up long enough for them to turn around and sell to a greater fool in the near future. And for the most part they’re right. The ultimate bag-holder ends up being the middle class worker and their auto-assigned 401k portfolio.

Dark triad personality traits

Preparations being made for the big day

Weeding the yard, one grass plant at a time

Aaaaaaagh- ! thump thump thump thump

Jimmy was ejected from the U-Haul.

. . .

Jimmy was not an imposter.

. . .

2 imposters remain.

Protease?

With every sci-fi story that’s been written incorporated into its training data, an LLM chatbot roleplaying an ‘AI’ persona is going to mindlessly auto-complete the most likely next thing that happens right after humans hand over control of the important dangerous thing to AI and trust it to make life-and-death decisions. It doesn’t have to be actually intelligent to be dangerous, it just has to be more intelligent than the people who think it is intelligent- and in my opinion it’s already there.

I wish that were my reaction to this. Instead, it’s a “DUH. No shit.”

Don’t stay inside. Find the nearest place to where you live with a lot of trees and few people, and go there, and walk. It won’t cure it, but at least won’t make matters worse the way sitting being sad in your room will.

Miyake event

We already did. The ‘human and AI’ section is dbzer0, the human only contents and posts section is the rest of the fediverse, and the mainly-AI section is the entire publicly traded corpo / normie internet, which is the same thing as the ‘dead internet’ but hasn’t quite realized it yet.

Well, the purpose of a first date is to find out if you both “initially like” each other, right? If so, there will be a second date; if not- not. So this sounds like a first-and-last date scenario, either way.

That means it’s an easy choice. I have to go with #1- no awkward burden of trying to get rid of her in a diplomatic way. No one is losing any sleep over why that weird boring guy they dated one time and didn’t like, never called back .

In reality though- dating isn’t a thing I do or would start doing. So not really qualified to advise on it.

…But I do deny them my- essence.

You are most likely to remember a dream you had right before you wake up, and you are sure to wake up right after a need-to-pee dream. So, the guys currently working on how to insert ads into your dreams think this one shows real promise as an exploitable dream ad template.